Lamp shade covers



July 16, 1957 P. LEVINE I 2,799,774

LAMP SHADE COVERS Filed April 20, 1955 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 F G.|. F I

INVENTOR Pau'l Levine ATTORNEY P. LEVINE LAMP SHADE COVERS July 16, 1957 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed April 20, 1955 FIG.|O.

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ATTORNEY United States Patent 9 f LAMP SHADE. COVERS Paul Levine, Jamaica, N. Y.

Application April 20, 1955, Serial No. 502,606

3 Claims. (Cl. 240-108) This invention relates to covers for lampshades of the type usually used in the home for electric lights, and more specifically to removable and replaceable covers for lampshades.

Such lampshades become soiled from time to time, and need replacement, or it sometimes happens that the home-keeper desires to vary the decor of the room in which the lamp may be situated.

It is, therefore, a principal object of the present invention to provide a length of fabric and supporting means therefor, which the home-keeper may readily apply to an existing lampshade, for'the purpose of providing a new cover, and particularly one presenting a pleated appear ance by means of a plurality of loops.

It is another object of the invention to provide hook bearing members which will serve to shape and reinforce varying types of loops in a removable lampshade cover.

Still another object of the invention is the provision of a flexible fabric and stiffening strip adapted to receive hook-bearing members for forming and reinforcing loops of varying types in the fabric cover.

Another object of the invention is to provide a r'emovable lampshade cover that may be easily installed and removed to satisfy the decorative desires of the homekeeper.

Another object of the invention is to provide a re-.

movable lampshade cover that is easily installed over an f existing lampshade to hide unslightly dirt or the like, and at the same time provide a pleasing appearance to the Another object of the invention is to provide hook bearing members for use with a flexible fabric of the character described, each having twin terminal legs so spaced from a central U-shaped hook and so formed with bends or the like whereby to form and reinforce loops in the fabric, which loops will lie substantially tangentially of the shade.

These and other objects and advantages of the invention will be more apparent from the following detailed description, when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. l is a view in side elevation of a lamp and frustoconical lampshade utilizing the cover and one form of hook-bearing member of the invention;

Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1, showing the invention as applied to a lampshade of cylindrical form;

Fig. 3 is an interior view of the cover in planar unrolled form;

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary vertical cross-sectional view taken on line 4-4 of Fig. 2, looking in the direction of from the upper longitudinal edge.

2,799,774 Patented July 16, 1957 the arrows, showing in detail the cover and hook member, and the manner of supporting the same on a lampshade;

Fig. 5 is a horizontal cross-sectional view taken on line 5-5 of Fig. 4, looking in the direction of the arrows;

Fig. 6 is a view in perspective of the form of hookbearing member shown in Figs. 4 and 5;

Fig. 7 is a fragmentary plan view of the loops formed as a result of utilizing the cover of Fig. 3 and a hookbearing member such as shown in Fig. 6;

Fig. 8 is a view in side elevation of a lamp and frustoconical lampshade utilizing the cover with another form of hook-bearing member;

Fig. 9 is a similar view of a lamp with a cylindrical shade;

Fig. 10 is a fragmentary vertical cross-sectional view taken on line 10--10 of Fig. 8, looking in the direction of the arrows, showing in detail the cover and hook-member and the manner of supporting the same on a lampshade.

Fig. 11 is a horizontal cross-sectional view taken on line 11--11 of Fig. 10, looking in the direction of the arrows;

Fig. 12 is a plan view of the form of hook-bearing member used in Figs. 8-11;

Fig. 13 is a view in front elevation of the hook-bearing member of Fig. 12; v

Fig. 14 is a view in side elevation of the same, and;

Fig. 15 is a fragmentary plan view of the loops formed as a result of utilizing the cover of Fig. 3 and a hook-bearing member such as shown in Figs. 12-l4.

As will be seen from Fig. 3 and Fig. 4, the cover 10 may be formed of a single piece of flexible fabric having its upper longitudinal edge turned inwardly and downwardly, as at 11. Secured between the edge 11 and the inner face 12 of the cover 10 is a strip of flexible folded stiflening fabric 13, formed with vertical spaced-apart pockets 14, having downwardly directed entrances 15,

adapted to receive the terminal ends of the hook-bearing members to be presently described. The lower longitudinal edge and the lateral edges of the fabric cover 10 may be finished in any conventional manner, as by folding and stitching.

The strip 13 may be formed from any suitable stiffening fabric by folding a strip of such fabric longitudinally at a point less than one-half the transverse dimension Thereafter, edge portions 16, 17 are folded inwardly so as to lie contiguous to one another, as at 18, with the terminal edge 19 of the portion 16 lying at a point above the edge 20 of the por tion 17.

Downwardly opening spaced-apart pockets 14 are formed in the strip 13 by a continuous line of stitching 21, as shown in Fig. 3. Strip 13 is also secured at its lower longitudinal edge 22 to the inner face 12 of the cover 10.

Oneform of hook-bearing member which may be used in conjunction with the fabric cover and stiffening strip is shown in perspective in Fig. 6. As there shown, mem ber 30 may be formed from a single piece of wire so as to provide parallel vertically upstanding twin terminal legs 31, 32 which are bent at their lower non-free ends 33, 34 to provide portions 35, 36 bent away from the legs outwardly and upwardly toward the cover. Integral extensions 37 and 38 of portions 35, 36 are bent upwardly and inwardly to be disposed between the legs 31 and 32 below their upper ends 39 and 40 and terminate in downwardly bent portions 41 and 42 to form a U-shaped hook portion 43 inwardly beyond the legs. The U-shaped hook portion 43 is adapted for placement over the upper rim 50 of a lampshade 51.

As may be seen from Figs. 4 and 5, when the ends 39,

40 of the vertical legs 31, 32 are inserted into adjacent ones of the spaced vertical pockets 14, the material of the cover 10 between the leg-bearing pockets is formed into a single loop 45 extending outwardly of the lampshade 51, the portions 35, 36,37, 38 of the hook-bearing member 30 serving to shape and reinforce the single loop thus formed.

Fig. 7 shows that each single loop is circumferentially spaced resulting from placing a plurality of members 30 into adjacent ones of the downwardly opening pockets 14 of the attached strip 13 around the inner periphery of the cover 10, and hanging the resulting structure over a lampshade. As best seen in Fig. these loops are formed outwardly beyond the legs 31 and 32.

As will be noted from Figs. 1 and 2, the loops 45 will flare out on a shade of frusto-conical form, while they will lie in substantially parallel vertical relationship on a shade of cylindrical form.

Figs. 12-14 illustrate another form of hook-bearing member which may be used. As there shown, member 60 may be formed from a single piece of Wire with a pair of vertically extending twin terminal legs 61, 62 lying substantially in the same plane, with each of the legs at their non-free ends terminating in loops 63, 64 substantially in the plane of the legs and from these loops extend integral portions 65, 66 laterally spaced from the legs. The integral portions extend outwardly and upwardly toward the cover at an angle to the plane of the legs. Portions 65, 66 are bent at 67, 68 to form'portions 69, 70 extending toward one another, but shaped as at 71, 72 to form downwardly extending portions 73, 74 which provide a U-shaped hook portion 75, adapted for placement over the upper rim 100 of a lampshade 101, a

as seen in Fig. 10. Portions 69, 70, 73 and 74 are all integral with portions 65, 66 and thus form an integral extension disposed between the upstanding legs to terminate in downwardly bent portions 73, 74 forming the hook portion 75 inwardly beyond the legs and a loop 80.

It will be noted from Figs. 12-14, that each of the legs 61, 62 lies on one side of the hook portions 75, in a plane spaced away from the plane of the hook, while at the same time, each of the legs 61, 62 extends outwardly at a slight angle from the hook in a direction opposite to that of the other leg.

As illustrated in Figs. 10 and 11, when the vertically extending legs 61, 62 are engaged in pre-sele-cted adjacent ones of the downwardly opening spaced pockets 14 .in the stifiening strip 13, the material of the cover 10 between the leg-bearing pockets i formed into a loop 80, the portions 65, 66, 69, and 70, of member 60 serving to shape and reinforce the said loop. As best seen in Fig. the loops 80 are single loops circumferentially spaced.

Downwardly extending portions 73, 74 are directed away from the inner face 12 of the cover 10, as will be seen in Fig. 10, so as to facilitate the placement of the cover over a shade 101. When the cover is thus placed 4 there results an attractive and easily removable lamp shade cover.

Figs. 8 and 9 show the cover with the hook-bearing member as applied to shades of frusto-conical shape and cylindrical shape, respectively.

Various modifications may be made which will be obvious to those skilled in the art, and which will fall within the scope of my invention as defined in the accompanying claims.

I claim:

1. A tubular cover for a lampshade having an inturned fold at its top margin, a strip of flexible folded stiffening material secured between the fold and the sheeted ma-, terial provided with spaced-apart pockets with downwardly directed entrances, and a plurality of one-piece hooks each having twin terminal legs upstanding in adjacent pockets substantially parallel to the sheeted material of the cover with each hook forming a plurality of single circumferentially spaced loops in the material outwardly beyond the legs, said legs having a part at each of their non-free ends bent away from the upstanding legs and enclosed in the loops in a direction toward the cover with the parts bent upwardly and enclosed'in the loops and with the parts extending between the upstanding legs and terminating in a downwardly bent portion forming a hook means inwardly beyond the legs and the loops for engagement with a support.

2. A tubular cover for a lampshade according to claim 1, wherein the part at the non-free end of each leg comprises a portion bent away from said leg outwardly and upwardly toward the cover and an integral extension of said portions bent upwardly and inwardly to be disposed between said legs and terminating in a downwardly bent portion forming a hook means inwardly beyond the legs and the loops for engagement with a support.

3. A tubular cover for a lampshade according to claim 1, wherein the part at the non-free end of each leg comprises a loop joined to the leg and substantially in the plane thereof, each loop having an integral portion laterally spaced from the leg and extending outwardly and upwardly toward the cover at an angle to the plane of said legs and with said integral portions terminating in an intergral extension disposed between the upstanding legs and terminating in a downwardly bent portion forming a hook means inwardly beyond the legs and the loops for engagement with a support.

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